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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Making a charity quilt

Recently I received a call for craft items for an auction at work to benefit a local cancer charity. And since I had been thinking of making a simple quilt from some fat quarters I had, I suddenly found myself with a deadline.

Not a bad thing, since I seem to need a fixed deadline to finish a project these days...

So I started cutting...

Making it a challenge to cut as many blocks from a Fat Quarter, I managed to make five blocks out of most of them, ending up with 59 blocks. Of course it should have been 60, but well, let's say mistakes were made...

I decided on a 7 x 8 layout, and used the remaining 3 blocks on the back.

I quilted with straight lines on my domestic machine, bound with a solid light green, and of course finished with a label.

The auction was a great success, and the organisers donated the money last week. I have no idea how much the quilt itself made in the auction since I wasn't able to go to the auction myself. However, I have no illusion it will have fetched as much as it would be worth commercially.

But this is the way I look at it:

I have made a quilt I loved making

I had the opportunity to refresh my memory of a pattern I enjoy

I have used fabrics from my stash

I have contributed to a great charity

I have contributed to the success of a fund-raising event which is now to be repeated next year

Someone has ended up with a quilty hug to enjoy!

Win-win-win in my book!

Also, I am considering writing the pattern for this, would anyone be interested?!